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ghsa-5hh7-vqxx-v3cj

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-17 03:05

Modified

2025-04-12 13:07

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4. In apport/ui.py, Apport reads the CrashDB field and it then evaluates the field as Python code if it begins with a "{". This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Python code.

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CVE-2016-9949 (GCVE-0-2016-9949)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2016-12-17 03:34

Modified

2024-08-06 03:07

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4. In apport/ui.py, Apport reads the CrashDB field and it then evaluates the field as Python code if it begins with a "{". This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Python code.

References

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URL

Tags

	https://github.com/DonnchaC/ubuntu-apport-exploitation	x_refsource_MISC
	https://donncha.is/2016/12/compromising-ubuntu-desktop/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1648806	x_refsource_MISC
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95011	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3157-1	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40937/	exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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